Holiday PAy

gt568

What is this holiday pay people keep wanging on about?

I get a wage and "X" numbers of days leave per annum.  I see no reference to holiday pay in my contract, what are people wanging on about?

Thanks Dudes!

Penguin_

Do you get paid a salary?

People who aren't salaried usually get

X hours basic pay @ £xx.xx
Y hours holidays pay @ £xx.xx

If you're salaried you won't see your holidays on your payslip as it's already taken care of in your salary.

Brie

Probably your contract says you get so many days paid leave.  

But if you work for 6 months of the holiday year without taking any holidays and then quit the company would be required to pay you for the holidays you accrued during that time.  So might label it holiday pay on your final payslip.

People who work random schedules might have different contracts to yours which state they get paid £15 an hour and then £X extra per hour holiday pay and then don't get paid anything when they take a holiday.

gt568

I'm on a salary of "x" for "x" hours per week, which gives me the companies full leave entitlement of 25 days plus BH.  Just never come across this holiday pay stuff in this job nor my last.

tacpot12

I can't remember any of the employers that I used to work for listing 'holiday pay' on my payslip. They just paid me the same every month whether or not I had taken any leave. I knew I was paid for my holidays, but the payroll didn't worry about it, and expect that it would only do so if there was something special about days that you took as leave.

zagfles

gt568 said:

I'm on a salary of "x" for "x" hours per week, which gives me the companies full leave entitlement of 25 days plus BH.  Just never come across this holiday pay stuff in this job nor my last.

When you're on leave, you get paid, right? That's holiday pay!

If you do regular overtime, that's supposed to be reflected in your holiday pay.

DullGreyGuy

gt568 said:

I'm on a salary of "x" for "x" hours per week, which gives me the companies full leave entitlement of 25 days plus BH.  Just never come across this holiday pay stuff in this job nor my last.

Because you are salaried. 

Many people are on £12 per hour and the number of hours they work varies as does which days they work on so don't have a simple 25 days + BH but accrue holiday pay depending on how many hours they work etc and then get paid for time off

gt568

What an odd situation and working arrangement!

Just seen a load of threads recently about "how to calculate holiday pay" or "am I owed holiday paye" etc....wondered what they were on about.

Savvy_Sue

It's tricky when you don't always work the same no. of hours each week. We have some part-time staff: we pay the hours they work. But if they only work 3 weeks in a month, they might ask for some holiday pay. Also at the end of last year we paid them for all the holiday they hadn't taken. So we listed it as holiday pay.

gt568

I'm guessing this is more an issue for those on part time hourly jobs?

DullGreyGuy

gt568 said:

I'm guessing this is more an issue for those on part time hourly jobs?

Part time working is probably more common in the type of jobs which are hourly rate rather than salary but its as much an "issue" for those on full time work in those types of jobs.